Friday, 28 November 2014

Ferguson and the False Promise

When faced on the battlefield with a numerically superior
enemy, one must attempt to divide his enemy into smaller, more easily
dispatched opponents – or even more ideally, divide them against one another,
and have them defeat each other without ever drawing your sword. For Wall
Street’s 0.1%, divide and conquer is a way of life.

Never in human history has there been a more effective way
for tyrants to rule over large groups of people who, should they ever learn to
cooperate, would easily throw off such

At the conclusion of the Anglo-Zulu War, the British
despoiled Zululand, divided it into 14 separate chiefdoms, each led by a proxy
obedient to the British Empire. The British ensured that these 14 chiefdoms
harbored animosities toward one another and fostered petty infighting between
them to ensure British interests would never again be challenged by a unified
Zulu threat. Before the British, the Romans would employ similar tactics across
Germania and Gaul.

Zululand lies in flaming ruins, its legendary army
decimated, but the British were not about to take any chances of allowing them
to unite and resit again. They divided the defeated nation into 14 chiefdoms
each headed by leaders harboring dislike for the others ensuring perpetual
infighting and a divided, weakened Zululand never again to rise and challenge
British subjugation.

In this way, the British Empire and the Romans managed to
not only decimate their enemies, but by keeping them perpetually infighting,
divided, and at war with one another, manged to keep them subservient to
imperial rule for generations.

But one would be mistaken to believe that imperialism is
only waged abroad. Imperialism is as much about manipulating, controlling, and
perpetuating subservience at home as it is projecting hegemony abroad. For the
imperialist, all of humanity represents a sea of potential usurpers. The
systematic division, weakening, and subjugation of various social groups along
political, religious, class, or racial lines has proven an ageless solution for
the elite.

One remembers the infamous use of Christians as a scapegoat
for the corruption of Roman Emperor Nero, deflecting public anger away from the
ruling elite and unto others among the plebeians.This is a game that has
continued throughout the centuries and continues on to this very day. While
racial, religious, and political divisions are aspects of human nature, they
are viciously exploited by the ruling elite to divide and destroy any capacity
of the general public to organize, resist, or compete with established
sociopolitical and economic monopolies.

Ferguson – Playing America Like a Fiddle

Before protests began breaking out in Ferguson, Missouri,
and even after the first of the protests in August, many across America’s
polarized “left/right” paradigm began to find a common ground, shocked at the
level of militarization the police had undergone and the heavy-handed response
they exercised amid protests. Even among the generally pro-police and military
“right,” there was concern over what was finally recognized as a growing and
quite menacing “police state” in America.Politicians, the corporate media, and
security agencies set off to work, dividing America’s public down very
predictable lines. Convenient “revelations” that the police were connected with
the ultra-racist Ku Klux Klan, coupled with growing choruses across the right
to circle the wagons in support of the militarized police attempted to place
those who converged on this common ground back into their assigned places on
the “right” and “left” of America’s ultimately Wall Street-controlled political
order.

Regardless of its success, attempts to intentionally provoke
violence, confusion, and division on both sides is an attempt by the
establishment to keep people divided and weak while maintaining their position
of primacy over the country and the expansive “international order” it imposes
globally. It was this establishment, in fact, that intentionally militarized
the police, intentionally cultivates both institutional racism as well as
sociopolitical and economic rot in America’s inner cities, creating breeding
grounds of violence and crime. So busy is America managing the predictable
conflict amongst themselves, they have neither the time nor the energy to
recognize their true tormentors.

In reality, the police and protesters and those across
America and around the world “picking sides” have more in common with one
another than the government and corporate-financier interests that reign in
Washington and on Wall Street.

Get Off the Hamster Wheel

One cannot accomplish anything by burning down one’s own
community, killing one another, or complaining and protesting endlessly. Real
revolution is not taking to the streets and destroying a political order, it is
creating a new order that displaces the old.The American Revolution, for
instance, occurred after the colonies established their own economic system, as
well as their own militias, political networks, and infrastructure. The
violence broke out only after the British tried to reassert themselves amid the
steady process of being displaced. By the time shots were being fired, the real
revolution had already occurred – the subsequent war was to defend its success.

Today, the establishment constitutes unchecked, unwarranted
power and influence held by the corporate-financier elite – an establishment we
are in fact paying into daily every time we patronize their businesses, use
their services, associate with their institutions, and pay in attention and
time to their propaganda and political agenda we ourselves should be setting
and executing. Ironically many of both the police and protesters clashing in
Ferguson on opposite sides of the “conflict” have homes full of Wall Street’s
goods, and subscriptions to many of their services.

Indeed, Walmart ends up filling our homes with most of the
consumer products we depend on in America. A handful of agricultural giants
feed us. A handful of pharmaceutical giants medicate us. A handful of energy
monopolies light our homes and fuel our vehicles. You could fill a single sheet
of paper with the names of corporate-financier interests that rule over nearly
every aspect of our lives.

Such monopolies exist because they have extinguished
competitors. Ensuring that competition remains extinguished means creating a
society that is incapable of producing individuals or paradigms capable of
challenging their established order. This includes sabotaging the education
system, creating a socioeconomic system that encourages unsustainable
dependence rather thanself-sufficiency and independence, and rigging rules,
regulations, and laws against any potential upstarts.The notion of Ferguson
protesters demanding justice from a system created of injustice, upon
injustice, is as absurd as trying to squeeze apple juice from a lemon. It is
the definition of fantastical futility.

Instead of demanding justice, jobs, education, healthcare,
food, and other necessities and desires from a system with no intention of ever
empowering the people – a system that in order to continue perpetuating itself
must by necessity never truly empower the people – we must begin working
together locally to empower ourselves. Power stems from infrastructure and
institutions – and locally this can be accomplished in innumerable ways.
Already farmers’ markets, organic cooperatives, makerspaces, churches,
community centers, community gardens, and charities along with innovative small
businesses leveraging technology to do locally what once required global
spanning industry to accomplish, all constitute the seeds of this shifting
paradigm. For communities unlucky enough not to have one of these above institutions,
or a lack of them, instead of baying for blood in the streets, burning down
buildings, or clashing with police, build them.

The alternative media itself is proof of what power people
have when they stop depending on others, stop demanding others to do their jobs
properly, and instead take up the responsibility themselves. Expanding this
paradigm shift to other aspects of our daily lives, from agriculture to energy,
to education, will be key to true and enduring change.Ferguson teaches us that
real change in the mind of many is still far off. America isn’t on the edge of
revolution. A hamster wheel endlessly spinning has no “edge.” Those picking
sides and bickering over the events in Ferguson are playing into an elementary
strategy of divide and conquer. We are divided, Wall Street has conquered.

At the end of it all, Wall Street comes out even stronger.
Because in the smoking remnants of our communities after all is said and done,
we have even less with which to build an alternative to the system we live
trapped within. Divided, we have half the people we should be joining together
with, collaborating and building together with, to build the world we want to
live in tomorrow.

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A new counter-culture is now spreading across the planet, a movement dedicated to protesting at the outlandish behaviour of the control freaks, with their surveillance, eavesdropping, secrecy and lies. Their greed and belligerent sabre rattling and their industries of war. The dream is to replace these sociopaths with Love!

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